Marker-Passing inference in the scone knowledge-base system

  • Authors:
  • Scott E. Fahlman

  • Affiliations:
  • Language Technologies Institute & Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • KSEM'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The Scone knowledge-base system, currently being developed at Carnegie Mellon University, implements search and inference operations using a set of marker-passing algorithms. These were originally designed for a massively parallel hardware architecture but now are implemented completely in software. The algorithms are fast, relatively simple, and they support efficient implementation of the most heavily used KB features. This paper describes these marker-passing algorithms, their strengths and limitations, and how they are used in Scone.